Star of stage and screen who helped the war effort honoured Actor and film director Leslie Howard (1893-1943) has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque at 45 Farquhar Road in Upper Norwood, south London. The plaque was installed on Tuesday 3rd September at the home where he lived in his later childhood –…

In an open letter to the Crystal Palace community Mr Ni Zhaoxing* chairman of ZhongRong group says he is pleased there has been positive feedback following the launch of our plans to rebuild Crystal Palace and to restore the Park. It is encouraging that people are excited about the potential of the scheme and the…

Bromley councils executive committee have given the go-ahead for an exclusivity agreement to be granted to the Sheffield Roofing company which wants to rebuild the roof of Crystal Palace. The exclusivity agreement, which is subject to the council’s call in procedures, will be between ZhongRong Group and Bromley Council and will be for a period of sixteen months,…

Bromley councils executive are due to consider a report on proposals to rebuild the Crystal Palace at their meeting tomorrow night (Wednesday October 16th). The report includes details of a 16-month exclusivity agreement for Sheffield Trees to convert the gardens and their advisers are currently finalising…

Any large scale project for the Crystal Palace site accompanied by the loss of significant amounts of parkland must have the support of local people, says the chairman of the Crystal Palace park community stakeholder group. We do not want to see, as happened in the past, years more of legal battles which will only…